It's not wrong to learn from painful experiences and to respond
accordingly.  It is good to understand why a thief steals and likewise good
to punish them (which includes restitution), which teaches them and others
to do the right thing.

I propose the thief be made to wear stripes and wash/wax everyone's vanagons
(content) at the next shindig, beginning with Jeff's!

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, levi hawkins <b1levi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> IMHO this is what people generally do, and it results in a colder world.
> Tighter, tougher, more suspicious.
> What would be nice is if folks would instead become looser, understand and
> accept.
>
> --- On Wed, 6/11/08, John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
> From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
> Subject: Re: Violated - LVC but Vanagon related
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 10:24 AM
>
> Right On!
>
> Thieves are like the parasitic worms (that they are) that make the
> general resistance of the body stronger. When you take a theft hit, you
> tighten up, strengthen yourself, your resolve, and take more steps that
> it doesn't happen again.
>
> Whatever "improvements" they may force us to take, make, I
> hate'em anyway!
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> Neil2 wrote:
> > Correctamundo.  Tho' thieves don't do karma or they wouldn't
> be thieves
> > would they?  They have their station in life.  Down low.  They fulfill
> their
> > purpose.  Refining those above, in the Vanagons (content).
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:47 AM, chris Moyles
> <chris@fauquierhousing.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Stealing is a bad thing all around, but stealing a custom bike,
> that's
> >> just asking for instant karma in the form of a serious wreck....  Same
> >> thing with climbing and kayaking gear.
> >> The gods don't take kindly to that stuff.   Then again it might be
> >> another form of natural selection!
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen Grisanti wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> "What a jerk. So much for having a sense of community."
> >>>
> >>> I know the feeling.  I was roused by an alarm call from my
> workplace at
> >>> oh-dark-thirty one morning and the cops had collared the guy who
> was one of
> >>> our customers.  He'd broken in to steal a custom bike on
> display and the
> >>> kicker here is that I had stayed after hours on a recent Saturday
> helping
> >>> him with parts he "had to have" in order to be ready for
> some event.  Glad
> >>> you got off so lightly.
> >>>
> >>> Stephen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Neil2
> > '82 Diesel Westy (Duckie)
> >
> >
> >
>

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Neil2
'82 Diesel Westy (Duckie)